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for fear to prejudice the affairs of his Majesty.”Sir William Lower’s Relation⁠ ⁠… of the Voyage and Residence which⁠ ⁠… Charles II hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72⁠–⁠73

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Otte Krag was one of the two extraordinary ambassadors from the King of Denmark to Charles II at the Hague. See Lower’s Voyage and Residence of Charles II in Holland, 1660, p. 41. ↩

William Quartermaine, M.D., matriculated as member of Brasenose College, Oxford, and afterwards removed to Pembroke College. He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to Charles II, and died in June, 1667. ↩

Marmaduke, fifth son of Conyers, Lord Darcy, one of the companions of Charles’s exile, whom the King was wont to call “ ’Duke Darcey,” and he is so styled in Charles’s narrative of his escape, as given to Pepys. On the pavement in the south aisle of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, is the following inscription:

“Here lyeth the body of the Honourable Marmaduke Darcy, Esq., brother to the Earl of Holderness, first gentleman usher of the privy-chamber to His Majesty, who died in this castle on Sunday, the 3rd of July, in the seventy-third year of his age, A.D. 1687.”

Pote’s History of Windsor, p. 365

—⁠B. ↩

“The Naseby now no longer England’s shame,
But better to be lost in Charles his name.”

Dryden, Astræa Redux

Another Charles was built at Deptford in 1667 by Jo. Shish. ↩

The Richard was a second-rate of seventy guns, built at Woolwich in 1658 by Christopher Pett. ↩

The Speaker was a third-rate of fifty-two guns, built at Woolwich in 1649 by Christopher Pett. ↩

The Henry then Dunbar, was a second-rate of sixty-four guns, built at Deptford in 1656 by Mr. Callis. ↩

The Happy Return, then the Winsley, was built at Yarmouth in 1654 by Edgar; it was a fourth-rate of forty-six guns. ↩

The Richmond, then the Wakefield, was built at Portsmouth in 1655 by Sir J. Tippets; it was a fifth-rate of twenty-six guns. ↩

The Henrietta, then the Lambert, was built at Horslydown in 1653⁠–⁠4 by Bright; it was a third-rate of fifty guns. ↩

The Speedwell, then the Cheriton, was a fifth-rate of twenty guns, built at Deptford in 1655 by Mr. Callis. ↩

The Success, then the Bradford, was a fifth-rate built at Chatham in 1657 by Captain Taylor. ↩

For the King’s own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see “Boscobel” (Bohn’s “Standard Library”). ↩

This was at Brighton. The inn was the “George,” and the innkeeper was named Smith. Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys in October, 1680. He then said, “And here also I ran into another very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside, leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a-talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon the back of the chair, and said to me, ‘God bless you wheresoever you go! I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife a lady.’ So I laughed, and went away into the next room.” ↩

On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a French merchant), to have Tettersell’s vessel ready at an hour’s warning. Charles II, in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680, said, “We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship, as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham, where the ship was. So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone we met with one, the merchant [Francis Mansell] who had hired the vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming anybody.”

The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his narrative: “As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were four and a boy.”

After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of £200 a year, and Tettersell one of £100 a year. (See Captain Nicholas Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II, by F. E. Sawyer, F.S.A., Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. xxxii pp. 81⁠–⁠104). ↩

A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to present an address of congratulation to the King. —⁠B. ↩

Lionel Cranfield, third and last Earl of Middlesex. Died 1674, when the title became extinct. ↩

Canons, canions, or cannions. Thus defined in Kersey’s Dictionary: “Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashioned ornament for the legs.” That is to say, a particular addition to breeches. Coles says, “Cannions, Perizomata.” Cotgrave, “Canons de chausses.” Minshew says, “On les appelle ainsi pourceque, etc.,